In this tutorial we’re going to look at the Key Stage Summative Assessment screens.

For each term, Tapestry brings together the assessments you’ve recorded for a child – in observations or on the Formative Assessment screen – into a single tier for every statement.

The Individual View lets you check, change and lock one child’s tiers, and the Group View shows a group of children side by side.

You’ll need the relevant Key Stage year-group frameworks switched on first (see Enabling an assessment framework), and the screens fill in as you assess the children – our Making a Key Stage Assessment tutorial covers that.

Each child’s Maintained Achievement Point is shown alongside their tiers too; see Key Stage: Maintained Achievement Points.

To find them, click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left, then Monitoring.

The Tapestry side menu with the Planning & Monitoring panel open, showing the Monitoring option
Planning & Monitoring › Monitoring in the side menu.

Select the tab for the year group – KS1 Y1 in our example – and, under Snapshots, click Individual View or Group View in the Summative Assessment box. Once you’re in, the Individual and Group tabs at the top of the screen let you swap between the two.

The Monitoring page on its KS1 Y1 tab, with the Individual View and Group View buttons in the Summative Assessment box
The KS1 Y1 tab, with Individual View and Group View under Summative Assessment.

The Individual View shows one child’s summative tier for every statement in a term, and is where you can adjust and lock them.

Choosing the child and term

Choose the Child, then check the Year and Period – they start on the current term. The Subject menu lets you show just one subject rather than all of them; we’ve chosen English.

Beneath the filters, Tapestry reminds you when the period starts and ends and how old the child is across it.

The Summative Assessment Individual View with the Individual and Group tabs, and the Child, Year, Period and Subject filters set to one child, 2026/27, Term 1 and English
Choose the Child, check the term, and pick a Subject if you like.

Reading the grid

The statements are listed by subject and area, with a key to your school’s tier colours at the top. For each statement you’ll see:

  • MAP and previous period tiers — the flag shows the child’s Maintained Achievement Point in its tier colour, followed by a square for each earlier term of the year;
  • Tier — the child’s summative tier for this term. Tapestry uses the most recent assessment for the statement, passing over any Absent ones if there’s anything else to use;
  • Show Details — where that tier came from.

The CSV and PDF buttons above the grid are to export it.

Each statement’s MAP flag, its summative Tier and Show Details.

Seeing where a tier came from

Click Show Details next to a statement to open the Snapshot Details.

It shows the child’s MAP for the statement, the tier Tapestry has worked out From observations, and each observation that contributed, with its date, author and the tier it recorded.

Click an observation’s title to open it.

The Snapshot Details, with the contributing observation beneath.

Changing a tier

If you’d like a different judgement for a statement, open its Tier menu and choose the tier you want. You can change as many as you need, then click Save Changes — there’s one above the grid and one at the bottom of the page.

A statement's Tier menu open, listing None, Absent, Needs support, Working below, Working at and Working above
Choose a different tier from the statement’s Tier menu.

Please note that saving your changes creates an observation for the child, titled “Summative assessment:” followed by their name, which records the tiers you’ve set. It isn’t shared with relatives.

Locking

Once you’re happy with a child’s tiers for the term, you can lock them so they stay as they are, even if more assessments are added later. Tick Locked in the Status box and click Save Changes.

Unlocking works the same way, and Tapestry asks whether to keep the locked tiers as your own judgements (Keep assessments as overrides) or go back to working them out from your observations (Use Tapestry’s latest estimates).

The Status box with the Locked box ticked, a red reminder to click Save Changes to update the status, and the Save Changes button
Tick Locked, then click Save Changes.

The Group View shows the summative tiers for a group of children side by side. Choose the Year, Period and Subject, then use the Children filters to pick who’s included — we’ve chosen the Pandas group. If your selection has more than 100 children, Tapestry asks you to narrow it down.

The Group View filters with the Group tab selected, Year, Period and Subject set to 2026/27, Term 1 and English, and the Children filters with the Pandas group chosen
Choose the term and subject, then filter the Children.

The statements run down the left, with a column for each child. Each cell shows the child’s MAP flag and their summative tier, using the short names from the key — a dash means the statement hasn’t been assessed.

Use the arrow buttons to scroll across if there are more children than fit, and click a child’s name to open their Individual View. The CSV and PDF buttons export the grid.

The Group View grid of English Spoken Language statements with a column for each child in the group, showing MAP flags and tiers such as WA and WAB
A column for each child — click a name to open their Individual View.

And that’s it! We’ve found the Summative Assessment screens, read a child’s tiers and where they came from in the Individual View, changed and locked them, and compared a group of children in the Group View.

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